woolly-headed

[wool-ee-hed-id]

adjective

1. having hair of a woolly texture or appearance.

2. marked by fuzzy thinking; muddleheaded; dim-witted.

Other Word Forms

• woolly-headedness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of woolly-headed¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

And at Yale Repertory Theater you can see the premiere of “Imogen Says Nothing,” by Aditi Brennan Kapil, an ambitious but rather woolly-headed play featuring, among other oddities, a troupe of talking bears.

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So which is he, asks Mr Chollet: a woolly-headed liberal idealist or an unsentimental realist?

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I understand that there will be times when you wake up woolly-headed on Dec. 26 and suddenly remember you have a one-way ticket to Dar es Salaam, leaving at 10 a.m. from Dulles.

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Yet again we lurch towards the woolly-headed daftness of economic sanctions.

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The actual story of Twelfth Night is presented as an example of the excesses of woolly-headed liberalism.

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